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The Ernest Glitch Chronicles is a novel about anarchic science. It combines dark humour, a steampunk theme set in Victorian England, and a cyberpunk story in the near future. This web page is intended for people who have purchased the eBook. The eclectic content will be rather confusing if you haven't purchased the novel !

Victorian Nitrogen Laser.
A letter from Glitch to Faraday, dated June 1856, would appear to indicate the observation of laser action in air, more than a century before Maiman's ruby laser or Javan's helium-neon laser. Or indeed, H.D.Heard's 1963 nitrogen laser.

Fullerenes Discovered in Victorian England
A letter from Ernest Glitch (son of Mad Judge Glitch) to Michael Faraday appears to note the crystallisation of C60 some 150 years before Kroto detects the allotrope.

Electrostatic C60 precipitation apparatus

C60 crystals

Victorian Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engine
An account of the use of hypergolic propellants and deLaval nozzles in 1856.

Victorian Tesla Coil, with reference to a possible medieval Coil.
A letter from Glitch to Michael Faraday appears to note the discovery of Germanium some 30 years before Winkler. The main body of the correspondence concerns a lightning machine.

Alchemists with Tesla Coil

Lightning Machine

Transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Glitch performs an experiment upon his own brain.

The First Flight.part two of 19th Century Jet-Powered Flying Machine in Weardale, plusThe Steam-Powered Rope-Engine - Mad Judge Glitch`s Power-Gallows - An account of the first test of this capital punishment machine.

Victorian Cyclotron
E. Glitch bombards diamonds with high energy particles to produce coloured 'fancy' stones. His equipment, mentioned in a letter to M. Faraday, pre-dates that of Lawrence by some 73 years

Cyclotron

Hodges

Sprites observed 1850s

Faraday's lecture debacle.
"Chemical History of the
Candle" disrupted by conflagration of Falco
peregrinus.

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Glitch Constructs Hypersonic Gun.
Upper Weardale was impacted by several projectiles in late 1857, in Glitch`s words, "Velocities approached 70,000 furlongs to the hour, Bishop."

Coal Bomb

Bladders

Glitch High Swiftness Gun

Trout fishing using electrolytically generated
gas explosions.
A butler's lungs detonate & the effect of acceleration on a closed system of buoyancy.

The Ernest Glitch Expedition To America 1858.
Glitch decides his War Poisons could have excellent commercial potential in the USA.

The Glitch Ranunculaceous Death-Spray.
An anti-personnel weapon of self defense, for use against robbers and other undesirable blackguards.
Some 150 years before US law enforcement officers were issued with Mace and CS gas sprays, Ernest Glitch demonstrated a lethal precursor using an alkaloid extracted from Aconitum napellus.

Preparing to return to Blighty from San Francisco.
Glitch & Hodges have to flee the USA, because of unpleasantness regarding a demonstration of mass-poisoning.

CUBIC EGGS part two.
Military interest causes concern.

1858: First X-Ray?
Rupert Glitch photographs his own bones

Double Van Marum

First X-Ray

The Glitch Sporting Bathyscaphe
Accounts of the use of this extreme depth marine hunting vessel.

HMS Warrior

Dodecahedron

The Glitch Machine Gun.
A fully automatic weapon 24 years before Hiram Maxim.

Glitch's Big Game Room

Reed Canary Grass

Observation of Light Emission from Electrically Stressed Silicon Carbide Crystals
Early LED? Letters to Faraday, with an account of country life between them, also mentioned is C60 in coal fulgurites.

First LED

Hodges & the Golden Fly
Gold-nucleation experiments produce a jewel and the promise of unlimited wealth. Work is suspended because of a successful test of Glitch`s Cacodyl Offensive Weapon

Hodges' Golden FlyPhoto by Peter Halasz

The Great Geysir & One Cubic Foot of Metallic Sodium.
The Iceland geochemical expedition. Mission, to impart a scientific understanding of hydro-geothermal processes to the indigenous population.

Volcanic Bomb.
From Stromboli, Glitch pours scorn on a contemporary academic. "... but Darwin‘s grasp of the
fluid dynamics regarding a globule of solidifying
effervescent viscous lava in free-fall is
feeble!"

Stromboli Volcanic Bomb

Geological observations on the Volcanic Islands, visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle. By Charles Darwin. 1844

Weapon of Mass Destruction in Victorian Times: The Coal-Dust Flame-Thrower.
Horror weapon invented in Weardale by Glitch. Also in 1862, his assistant noted the depletion of U235 in pitchblende from Oklo, and suggested that a natural reactor could be the cause of the isotopic anomaly.

Great Balls of Brown Gas!
The preparation of a green solid from Liquid Air & experiments with the oxides of nitrogen. Also, Thai Boxing in Victorian London; combat between Hodges and a Muay Thai fighter.